• Public REIT Acquires New England Seniors Housing Portfolio

    Blueprint announced that it handled the sale of a three-community private pay seniors housing portfolio in Rhode Island. A Dallas-based private equity firm engaged Blueprint in 2025 to sell the portfolio, which it acquired with Capital Health Group in 2019. The assets comprise 367 independent living, assisted living and memory care units in the... Read More »
  • Regional Owner/Operator Exits Senior Care Industry

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage completed a regional owner/operator’s exit from the seniors housing industry with a third and final disposition. The asset was The Homestead in Fallon, Nevada, about one hour east of Reno. It was originally built between 1972 and 1980 and has undergone significant renovations in 2007 and 2018. Most recently, in... Read More »
  • Well-Performing SNF Trades in Iowa

    A skilled nursing facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that boasted strong occupancy levels and consistent cash flow traded hands. The facility had long-standing referral relationships and a reliable census pipeline. But, there is still room for upside.  Ownership was intentional in selecting a buyer that would preserve and build upon the facility’s... Read More »
  • Class-A Active Adult Community Trades

    An active adult community north of Houston, Texas, sold with the help of Cody Tremper, Mike Garbers, Ross Sanders and Dave Fasano of Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare. Alders Magnolia encompasses 184 units in Magnolia, and was built in 2021. The seller was Capitol Seniors Housing, and the buyer was Texas-based active adult development and... Read More »
  • Not-for-Profit Divests to For-Profit Owner/Operator

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors announced the closing of two separate senior care sales. First, Brandon Bohland and Collin Hempfling handled a faith-based not-for-profit organization’s divestment of a senior care campus in the Charlotte, North Carolina MSA. The campus has a 50-bed skilled nursing facility and a 96-bed assisted living... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Sells Miami-Dade Portfolio

Cushman & Wakefield Sells Miami-Dade Portfolio

It took a couple of years, but Cushman & Wakefield has finalized the sale of a portfolio of 10 senior care facilities in Miami-Dade County, Florida, on behalf of the seller, A.D.M.E. investment partners. Totaling 1,289 beds and over 370,800 square feet, the properties consisted of a mix of assisted living and skilled nursing facilities. The AL communities ranged in size from 12 units and 50 beds to 65 units and 118 beds, and sold between $38,200 per unit and $90,500 per unit. The SNFs ranged in size from 120 beds to 203 beds, and sold between $25,000 per bed to $119,900 per bed, with one deal also involving the termination of a ground lease on the property for $5.8 million. The last... Read More »
Greystone Closes Pennsylvania Portfolio Refinance

Greystone Closes Pennsylvania Portfolio Refinance

Greystone provided HUD financing to a portfolio of five skilled nursing facilities in the eastern part of Pennsylvania. The 622-bed portfolio, located in Easton, Millville, Orangeville and Stevens, was acquired by Maybrook Holdings in 2017 for an undisclosed price. Whatever changes were made or renovations were completed must have worked out, as Maybrook sought out a permanent debt solution. Fred Levine originated the deal, which consisted of $62.98 million in non-recourse, self-amortizing HUD loans that also came with low, fixed rates. Read More »
Portopiccolo Group Adds to Its Skilled Nursing Portfolio

Portopiccolo Group Adds to Its Skilled Nursing Portfolio

The Portopiccolo Group has been one of the most active investors in the skilled nursing space in the last couple of years, with four acquisitions in 2019 and three in 2018. It looks like that growth is continuing in a big way into 2020, with the New Jersey-based private equity firm announcing the acquisition of three skilled nursing facilities in North Carolina (2) and Maryland. The acquisition consisted of a total of 450 skilled nursing and 50 assisted living beds. It did not disclose a purchase price, but Oxford Finance secured a $64.6 million term loan and a revolving line of credit. This was the second transaction between Oxford and Portopiccolo, and it may not be the last. Just last... Read More »
Regions Bank and Cushman & Wakefield Finance Auctus-Owned Community

Regions Bank and Cushman & Wakefield Finance Auctus-Owned Community

Regions Bank Healthcare Real Estate Group announced a balance sheet loan closing at the start of February for a client in northern California. Originally built in 1975 in Carmichael, the property being refinanced is a 98-unit independent living community. Auctus Capital Partners acquired it in 2015, with plans to invest in capital improvements. So, it underwent a significant renovation and conversion project in 2018, and is now in the final stages of lease-up. Auctus put an operating affiliate, Altum Senior Living, in place to manage the community. Working with a new customer for the bank, Chris Honn secured a $5 million loan, with a three-year term and three years of interest only, to... Read More »
Monticello Finances Tennessee Transaction

Monticello Finances Tennessee Transaction

Monticello Asset Management and its affiliates provided $15.8 million in first lien debt to finance the acquisition of three assisted living/memory care communities in Tennessee. Totaling 126 units, the communities will also be renovated thanks to funds from this transaction. The borrower was an experienced owner/operator of seniors housing communities with a portfolio of more than 1,100 units, inclusive of recent acquisitions. This is the second Tennessee transaction closed by Monticello this month. The earlier deal consisted of $16.68 million of first lien debt for the refinance of two skilled nursing facilities and 303 total beds in the state. That transaction also included a $3 million... Read More »
California-Based REIT Buys in Fresno Market

California-Based REIT Buys in Fresno Market

Evans Senior Investments handled the sale of a 112-unit senior living community in the Fresno, California market, representing its independent owner in the transaction. Built in 2005 in the town of Madera, the community presented an opportunity to improve operations through synergies and expense management. It offers independent living, assisted living and memory care services, and was 87.6% occupied in the 12 months prior to the sale, with a 100% private pay census. A California-based REIT stepped in as the buyer, paying an undisclosed price. The transaction comes amid a flurry of activity from Evans Senior Investments, which recently closed deals in Georgia, Indiana, Utah, Minnesota and... Read More »
Regions Bank and Cushman & Wakefield Finance Auctus-Owned Community

Cushman & Wakefield Closes Carmichael, California Refinance

After recently renovating its senior living community in Carmichael, California (Sacramento MSA), Auctus Capital Partners is refinancing the property, retaining the team of Aaron Rosenzweig, Sam Dylag, Rick Swartz and Jay Wagner of Cushman & Wakefield to get the deal done. Originally built in 1975 and renovated in 2000, it was sold in 2003 to Nicol Investment for $6 million, or $71,400 per unit, and then in 2015 to Auctus for an undisclosed price. Cushman & Wakefield arranged first mortgage financing for that purchase, with Owens Financial, a San Francisco-based lender, providing the loan. Since Auctus took over, it has executed on a strategic renovation and unit conversion... Read More »
Punzel Sells in Portland

Punzel Sells in Portland

It wasn’t a complete exit, but a local owner/operator in Portland, Oregon sold its assisted living community with the help of Brad Goodsell, Jason Punzel and Vince Viverito of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. This was the seller’s only senior living community, but they will stay on as a consultant post-closing. A regional operator with several communities in Washington acquired the property, its first in the state. Originally built in 2012 and expanded in 2018, the 47-unit/50-bed community catered to a high-acuity population. It was operating well, with 96% occupancy and a 39% margin on over $2.9 million of annual revenue. So, the incoming owner won’t change much, and why should they?... Read More »
Ziegler Finances SNF Repositioning/Renovation Project

Ziegler Finances SNF Repositioning/Renovation Project

Ziegler worked on behalf of St. Ann’s of Greater Rochester, a seniors housing and health services provider in the Rochester, New York area, to fund a campus-wide improvement project that started in 2015. The first phase involved the relocation of 34 post-acute rehabilitation beds from one facility to the ninth floor of its largest skilled nursing facility, St. Ann’s Community. Phase II will be comprised of a renovation to floors three through eight of St. Ann’s Community, and will result in a net-reduction of 96 beds. Together with other available funds, St. Ann’s received $108.825 million in tax-exempt, fix-rate bonds to finance the project, capitalized interest, outstanding indebtedness... Read More »
Values Surge Despite Persistent Worries

Values Surge Despite Persistent Worries

The 25th Edition of The Senior Care Acquisition Report is almost ready, but get your sneak preview and analysis in our upcoming webcast. We are diligently working on the 2020 edition of the Senior Care Acquisition Report, which we hope to have ready for publication by the end of the month. It will be the 25th edition of this market-leading report, and it has valuable M&A statistics that you will not find anywhere else, including trends over multi-year periods. Well, that is not exactly true. Next week we will be releasing some of those statistics in our annual webcast on the state of the seniors housing and care M&A market. Our panel will include brokers from Cushman &... Read More »